英文勵(lì)志美文篇一：英語勵(lì)志美文-志存高遠(yuǎn)

志存高遠(yuǎn)便是成功之道The Road to Success-英語勵(lì)志美文(雙語中英)

It is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions. Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of their career. They were introduced to the broom，and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office. I notice we have janitors and janitresses now in offices，and our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of business education. But if by chance the professional sweeper is absent any morning，the boy who has the genius of the future partner in him will not hesitate to try his hand at the broom. It does not hurt the newest comer to sweep out the office if necessary. I was one of those sweepers myself.

年輕人創(chuàng)業(yè)之初，應(yīng)該從最底層干起，這是件好事。匹茲保有很多商業(yè)巨頭，在他們創(chuàng)業(yè)之初，都肩負(fù)過“重任”：他們以掃帚相伴，以打掃辦公室的方式度過了他們商業(yè)生涯中最初的時(shí)光。我注意到我們現(xiàn)在辦公室里都有工友，于是年輕人就不幸錯(cuò)過了商業(yè)教育中這個(gè)有益的環(huán)節(jié)。如果碰巧哪天上午專職掃地的工友沒有來，某個(gè)具有未來合伙人氣質(zhì)的年輕人會(huì)毫不猶豫地試著拿起掃帚。在必要時(shí)新來的員工掃掃地也無妨，不會(huì)因?yàn)槎�有什么損失。我自己就曾經(jīng)掃過地。

Assuming that you have all obtained employment and are fairly started, my advice to you is “aim high”. I would not give a fig for the young man who does not already see himself the partner or the head of an important firm. Do not rest content for a moment in your thoughts as head clerk, or foreman, or general manager in any concern, no matter how extensive. Say to yourself, “My place is at the top.” Be king in your dreams. 假如你已經(jīng)被錄用，并且有了一個(gè)良好的開端，我對(duì)你的建議是：要志存高遠(yuǎn)。一個(gè)年輕人，如果不把自己想象成一家大公司未來的老板或者是合伙人，那我會(huì)對(duì)他不屑一顧。不論職位有多高，你的內(nèi)心都不要滿足于做一個(gè)總管，領(lǐng)班或者總經(jīng)理。要對(duì)自己說：我要邁向頂尖！要做就做你夢(mèng)想中的國王！

And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it. 成功的首要條件和最大秘訣就是：把你的精力，思想和資本全都集中在你正從事的事業(yè)上。一旦開始從事某種職業(yè)，就要下定決心在那一領(lǐng)域闖出一片天地來；做這一行的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人物，采納每一點(diǎn)改進(jìn)之心，采用最優(yōu)良的設(shè)備，對(duì)專業(yè)知識(shí)熟稔于心。

The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which means that they have scattered their brains also. They have investments in this, or that, or the other, here there, and everywhere. "Don't put all your eggs in one basket." is all wrong. I tell you to "put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket." Look round you and take notice, men who do that not often fail. It is easy to watch and carry the one basket. It is trying to carry too many baskets that breaks most eggs in this country. He who carries three baskets must put one on his head, which is apt to tumble and trip him up. One fault of the American businessman is lack of concentration.

一些公司的失敗就在于他們分散了資金，因?yàn)檫@就意味著分散了他們的精力。他們向這方面投資，又向那方面投資；在這里投資，在那里投資，到處都投資�！安灰�把所有的雞蛋放在一個(gè)籃子里”的說法大錯(cuò)特錯(cuò)。我要對(duì)你說：“把所有的雞蛋都放在一個(gè)籃子里，然后小心地看好那個(gè)籃子�！笨纯茨阒車�，你會(huì)注意到：這么做的人其實(shí)很少失敗。看管和攜帶一個(gè)籃子并不太難。人們總是試圖提很多籃子，所以才打破這個(gè)國家的大部分雞蛋。提三個(gè)籃子的人，必須把一個(gè)頂在頭上，而這個(gè)籃子很可能倒下來，把他自己絆倒。美國商人的一個(gè)缺點(diǎn)就是不夠?qū)Ｗⅰ?/p>

To summarize what I have said: aim for the highest; never enter a bar room; do not touch liquor, or if at all only at meals; never speculate; never indorse beyond your surplus cash fund; make the firm's interest yours; break orders always to save owners; concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket; expenditure always within revenue; lastly, be not impatient, for as Emerson says,"no one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves."

把我的話歸納一下：要志存高遠(yuǎn)；不要出入酒吧；要滴酒不沾，或要喝也只在用餐時(shí)喝少許；不要做投機(jī)買賣；不要寅吃卯糧；要把公司的利益當(dāng)作自己的利益；取消訂貨的目的永遠(yuǎn)是為了挽救貨主；要專注；要把所有的雞蛋放在一個(gè)籃子里，然后小心地看好它；要量入為出；最后，要有耐心，正如愛默生所言，“誰都無法阻止你最終成功，除非你自己承認(rèn)自己失敗。”

英文勵(lì)志美文篇二：英語勵(lì)志美文

英語勵(lì)志美文 Just ten years ago, I sat across the desk from a doctor with a stethoscope. “Yes, ” he said, “there is a lesion in the left, upper lobe. You have a moderately advanced case…” I listened, stunned, as he continued, “You’ll have to give up work at once and go to bed. Later on, we’ll see.” He gave no assurances.

Feeling like a man who in mid-career has suddenly been placed under sentence of death with an indefinite reprieve, I left the doctor’s office, walked over to the park, and sat down on a bench, perhaps, as I then told myself, for the last time. I needed to think. In the next three days, I cleared up my affairs; then I went home, got into bed, and set my watch to tick off not the minutes, but the months. 2 years and many dashed hopes later, I left my bed and began the long climb back. It was another year before I made it.

I speak of this experience because these years that past so slowly taught me what to value and what to believe. They said to me: Take time, before time takes you. I realize now that this world I’m living in is not my oyster to be opened but my opportunity to be grasped. Each day, to me, is a precious entity. The sun comes up and presents me with 24 brand new, wonderful hours—not to pass, but to fill.

I’ve learned to appreciate those little, all-important things I never thought I had the time to notice before: the play of light on running water, the music of the wind in my favorite pine tree. I seem now to see and hear and feel with some of the recovered freshness of childhood. How well, for instance, I recall the touch of the springy earth under my feet the day I first stepped upon it after the years in bed. It was almost more than I could bear. It was like regaining one’s citizenship in a world one had nearly lost.

Frequently, I sit back and say to myself, Let me make note of this moment I’m living right now, because in it I’m well, happy, hard at work doing what I like best to do. It won’t always be like this, so while it is I’ll make the most of it—and afterwards, I remember—and be grateful. All this, I owe to that long time spent on the sidelines of life. Wiser people come to this awareness without having to acquire it the hard way. But I wasn’t wise enough. I’m wiser now, a little, and happier.

“Look thy last on all things lovely, every hour.” With these words, Walter de la Mare sums up for me my philosophy and my belief. God made this world—in spite of what man now and then tries to do to unmake it—a dwelling place of beauty and wonder, and He filled it with more goodness than most of us suspect. And so I say to myself, Should I not pretty often take time to a

bsorb the beauty and the wonder, to contribute a least a little to the goodness? And should I not then, in my heart, give thanks? Truly, I do. This I believe.

第二次生命的啟示 十年前的一天，我坐在一名手持聽診器的醫(yī)生對(duì)面�！澳愕淖蠓稳~上部確實(shí)有一處壞損，而且病情正在惡化”——聽到這里，我整個(gè)人一下懵了�！澳惚仨毻Ｖ构ぷ髋P床休息，有待觀察。”醫(yī)生對(duì)我的病情也是不置可否。

就這樣，事業(yè)方面方興未艾的我仿佛突然被人判了死刑，卻說不準(zhǔn)何時(shí)執(zhí)刑。我離開醫(yī)生的辦公室，來到公園的長椅上坐下。這也許是最后一次來這兒了，我對(duì)自己說。我真得好好整理一下思緒。接下來的三天我把手頭的事務(wù)全部處理完畢。我回到家，躺到床上，然后把手表從顯示分鐘改為顯示月份。兩年半的時(shí)間過去了，在無數(shù)次的失望之后，我終于可以離開病床，艱難地向從前的生活狀態(tài)回歸。一年之后，我做到了。

我之所以談起這段經(jīng)歷，是因?yàn)槟嵌味热杖缒甑臍q月讓我懂得應(yīng)該珍惜什么，信仰什么。那段歲月讓我明白一個(gè)道理：牢牢抓住時(shí)間，而不是讓時(shí)間將你套牢。現(xiàn)在我終于明白，我生活著的這個(gè)世界不是等待我去打開的一扇牡蠣，而是需要我去抓住的一個(gè)機(jī)會(huì)。每一天我都視若珍寶，每一輪太陽帶給我的嶄新的二十四小時(shí)都鮮活而精彩，我絕不可將其虛度。

如今，我仿佛重返童年，又覺得自己所見所聞所感的一切都那么新鮮。當(dāng)我臥床數(shù)年后重新將雙腳踏在大地上的那一刻，腳下那久違了的松軟土壤讓我激動(dòng)得情難自抑，仿佛重新?lián)碛形也钜稽c(diǎn)就失去的世界。

我現(xiàn)在時(shí)常舒舒服服地坐著，提醒自己要記住當(dāng)下的每分每秒，因?yàn)楝F(xiàn)在的我健康、快樂，能努力做自己最愛做的工作。這一切如此美好，卻終將消逝，在如此美好的生活消逝之前，我一定要倍加珍惜。在它逝去之后，我會(huì)記得曾經(jīng)擁有的美好，并心存感激。這一切改變都得益于我在生命邊緣徘徊的那幾年。智者無需被逼到如此境地也能明白這些道理——可惜我從前太愚鈍�，F(xiàn)在的我比從前多了幾分睿智，我也因此更加快樂。

英國詩人沃爾特.德拉.梅爾曾說過：“時(shí)刻記住，最后看一眼所有美好的事物！”這句詩正好總結(jié)了我的人生哲學(xué)與信仰。上帝創(chuàng)造的這個(gè)世界——這個(gè)人類時(shí)常試圖毀滅的世界——是個(gè)美麗奇妙的家園。這里充滿了上帝所賜予的美好事物，超過我們大多數(shù)人的想象。我于是常常自問，難道自己不應(yīng)該去細(xì)細(xì)品味這些美麗與奇跡，盡綿薄之力去創(chuàng)造世間的美好嗎？難道我不應(yīng)心存感激嗎？我確實(shí)應(yīng)該——這就是我的信仰。

lobe [l?ub] video

n. （腦、肺等的）葉；裂片；耳垂；波瓣

spite [spait] video

n. 不顧；惡意；怨恨vt. 刁難；使惱怒

lesion ['li:??n] video

n. 損害；身體上的傷害；機(jī)能障礙 oyster ['?ist?] video

n. 牡蠣，[無脊椎] 蠔；沉默寡言的人 assurance [?'?u?r?ns] video n. 保證；保險(xiǎn)；確信；斷言

dwell [dwel] video

vi. 居住；存在于；細(xì)想某事

entity ['ent?ti] video

n. 實(shí)體；存在；本質(zhì)

indefinite [in'defin?t] video

adj. 不確定的；無限的；模糊的

awareness [?'w??nis] video

n. 意識(shí)，認(rèn)識(shí)；明白，知道

citizenship ['sitiz?n?ip] video

n. [法] 公民身份，公民資格；國籍；公民權(quán)

英文勵(lì)志美文篇三：欣賞勵(lì)志英語美文

欣賞勵(lì)志英語美文

今天小編帶你看一篇文章，這是《哈利波特》的作者j.k羅琳在哈佛大學(xué)的演講稿節(jié)選片段，讓我們來一起分享大作家的風(fēng)采，這段話她在回憶過去的經(jīng)歷，傷感而又勵(lì)志，深刻而有意義，讓我們對(duì)生活有了更深層次的理解，值得我們?nèi)ド钏? 勵(lì)志英語美文，接下來，讓我們一起品味吧！

i would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that i do not blame my parents for their point of view. there is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. what is more, i cannot criticise my parents for hoping that i would never experience poverty. they had been poor themselves, and i have since been poor, and i quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes

depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

我想澄清一下：我不會(huì)因?yàn)楦改傅挠^點(diǎn)，而責(zé)怪他們。埋怨父母給你指錯(cuò)方向是有一個(gè)時(shí)間段的。當(dāng)你成長到可以控制自我方向的時(shí)候，你就要自己承擔(dān)責(zé)任了。尤其是，我不會(huì)因?yàn)楦改赶Ｍ�我不要過窮日子，而責(zé)怪他們。他們一直很貧窮，我后來也一度很窮，所以我很理解他們。貧窮并不是一種高貴的經(jīng)歷，它帶來恐懼、壓力、有時(shí)還有絕望，它意味著許許多多的羞辱和艱辛�？孔约旱呐�力擺脫貧窮，確實(shí)可以引以自豪，但貧窮

本身只有對(duì)傻瓜而言才是浪漫的。

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